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16 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
It’s way too early in the year for this A orange sky filled with sm...
It’s 61 at my house with the marine layer creeping in. Light wind. There’s a chance of rain tonight. But our vegetation is so frighteningly dry https://t.co/uChQUojQHM
This is the wrong May Gray A smoky sky with a bright p...
Because it’s so cold and cloudy many people in LA don’t know there’s a fire. Check in on your people https://t.co/UEWHScZO0t

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Alissa Walker Profile picture
16 May
Last summer LA city and county elected officials held a press conference instructing 10 million people to sign up for Citizen so it could be used as the official COVID contract tracing app
Part of the reasoning for using Citizen for contact tracing was that the app could quickly "deliver safety alerts" to the LA region.

I have yet to see any data from the city or county on how many COVID cases were reported or tracked through the app
Nearly a million people in LA got this notification encouraging vigilantism (from an app that was originally called Vigilante, it's not too surprising).

Meanwhile not a peep from city officials denouncing this activity or their partnership with Citizen
Read 10 tweets
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15 May
This part says to me that @kdeleon specifically wants to exclude people from the BRT conversation who 1) have inflexible work schedules 2) aren't physically able to attend a meeting 3) are caregivers 4) have unvaccinated kids they might not want to be around anti-transit racists
I'm actually not terribly surprised that @kdeleon is trying to Koretz the project with this letter — especially if he's trying to run for mayor as this @StreetsblogLA story mentions.

But in-person meetings? That's a dogwhistle la.streetsblog.org/2021/05/14/kev…
It seems, from several of the councilmember's comments this week, that he really does not know — or is choosing to ignore — the full history of this project, let alone how Metro has been doing outreach on all its BRT projects recently
Read 7 tweets
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24 Mar
I just called the Echo Park Rec Center. The person who answered the phone said the park is closing tomorrow and people will only have access to the public spaces south of Bellevue.

It seems like Rec and Parks knows exactly when the park is closing.
However, you can still book a swan boat ride for tomorrow or any other day, so maybe details of the closure have not yet reached the Boathouse?

Seems like vendors, including those who sell food in the park, should be alerted if they're going to lose business for weeks or months? A screen showing a reservation for a swan boat ride on Echo
I called Wheel Fun Rentals, which operates the swan boats, and the person said they knew about a potential closure, but didn't have additional details about when, and hoped it wouldn't affect them.

It seems strange they wouldn't have the same information. Is the park closing?
Read 8 tweets
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23 Mar
Echo Park Lake got a $45 million makeover 6 years ago. What "renovations"? Why is this secret?

For years our requests for safe parking lots, showers, and bathrooms were ignored, but the city can mobilize this quickly to build a fence shutting down an entire 16-acre public space?
It's so interesting that the city has chosen this exact moment to resurface the north playground, but has *never once* upgraded or resurfaced the south playground, which still has sand.

Hmmm, now why would they prioritize one specific part of the park?
PROJECT SCOPE The scope of the proposed Project includes the
Here's how to stand with the unhoused community tomorrow morning.

Be sure to let your councilmember know that making up a secret "park improvement" project just to destroy people's homes is absolute bullshit.
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9 Mar
Two weeks ago today, I sent an email to producers at KCRW's Greater LA saying I could not appear as a contributor on the show again until the station publicly responded to journalist Cerise Castle's allegations of racism and erasure of her work on the #MyBlackLA project.
Since I sent that note, more Black journalists have come forward sharing their experiences of racism at KCRW. A KCRW employee resigned. And yet, there has been no additional public statement from KCRW management aside from a thread attempting to discredit Cerise’s allegations.
Regular KCRW guests have asked me if they should appear on the station. Here's what I'm telling them.

KCRW has provided a more detailed public explanation for why it dropped the show The Daily than it has for why it's not moving forward with #MyBlackLA kcrw.com/news/articles/…
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9 Feb
A gut-punch of a study: 1 in 5 deaths worldwide are now attributable to fossil fuel-polluted air.

Some of the highest rates of mortality *in the world* are in the Northeast U.S., where deaths correlate with high concentrations of particulate pollution theguardian.com/environment/20…
Thinking about this story from two years ago, where the WHO's finding that 1 in 10 childhood deaths could be attributed to air pollution spurred a group of mayors to lash out against automakers for continuing to manufacture gas-powered vehicles
archive.curbed.com/2018/10/29/180…
I don't think I've seen any U.S. Climate Mayors™ issue similar calls to automakers to stop making fossil-fuel powered vehicles that are quite literally killing their constituents.

Maybe they're listening now
seas.harvard.edu/news/2021/02/d… “This new research supports...
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